Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institution announced that for two years one of its ichthyologists had been working on an explanation. Mrs. Marie Poland Fish dredged the Navy's submarine logs, made seasonal charts of the points where false enemy signals had been reported. Then she made charts showing where whales and other big marine mammals were at the same seasons. Each pair of charts matched...
...silence. The C.I.O. Steelworkers' president was concluding his final plea for a 30? -an-hour package of wage increases, pensions and social insurance. Across the oak-paneled hearing room sat Enders Voorhees, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee, who had presented the core of Big Steel's arguments. Voorhees, snapped Murray, did not understand the working man: "He's lived a ... juicy life . . . [this] fat, sassy and very opulent man." And if Voorhees did not believe in pensions, asked Murray, "why does he not mention his own $70,323 pension?" The union rested...
...Columbia's LP records were outselling RCA's 30 to 1. Chicago's leading record dealer, Hudson-Ross, said that the RCA 45 "just hasn't caught on." In other cities, dealers reported that LP records were the only ones for which there was a big demand. Many retailers had trimmed prices of standard (78 r.p.m.) records as much as 50% in order to keep stocks moving. Moaned a Los Angeles dealer: "The manufacturers have got everybody in a dither...
...between a shiny red cultivator and a new Ford tractor was a stock and grain brokerage office. A Trans-Lux projector flashed ticker tape reports from the New York Stock Exchange and Chicago's Board of Trade; two salesmen chalked up stock quotations and commodity prices on a big blackboard...
While brokerage firms were hustling in the hustings, there was still a virgin market in at least one big city. The 1949 consumer survey made by the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press reported that 90% of St. Paul citizens in top salary brackets had never bought a share of stock or a corporation bond...